IKOS PhD seminar: Reading Strategies Across Fields and Disciplines

Although we work with different materials and within different theoretical frameworks, what we spend most of our days with is reading – archival sources, documents, field notes, texts in multiple genres and formats

Time and place: Mar. 17, 2022 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, PAM 389 and Zoom

In the humanities, reading is by far the most dominant method. Nevertheless, we seem to suffer from a radical lack of methodological reflection about what we are actually doing when we read.

In this seminar, we will look at elements that frame our reading practices and strategies, including genre, speech acts, discursivity, multimodality, key concepts, and rhetorical tropes, only to mention some examples.

For the second part of the seminar, we invite you to present your own readings that make up your dissertation work.

How do I sign up for the course:

Please send an email to kari.andersen@ikos.uio.no and specify whether you want to present something or not.

About the paper:

The final paper should be no longer than a minimum 5-pages, maximum 10 pages, with text reflecting on the theme of the seminar and how this plays out in your own research. The texts will be pre-circulated among the participants ahead of the seminar.

Deadline for paper: 10 March

ECTS points

Generally, you will get 1 ECTS point for attending the seminar, 2 ECTS points for a presentation or a comment.

Program:

900-1000 Introductory remarks by Helge. Q&A

1015-1130 Discussion of readings. Everyone is asked to present an argument from one of the texts that they find particularly compelling as a reading strategy

1130-1215 Lunch

1215-1300 Paper by Kanyu

1300-1345 Paper by Marie. Comments by Tuan.

1400-1445 Paper by Sonja. Comments By Erica.